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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So glad i switched to jellyfin half a year ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Same. My wife also just asked me to get a bunch of audio books too...so looks like I have to set up that now

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The default Jellyfin client isn't great for audiobooks.
For Apple iOS you might wanna look at https://github.com/LeoKlaus/plappa
For Android I would look at https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
Personally I just download the audiobooks from Jellyfin and play it in https://f-droid.org/packages/com.prangesoftwaresolutions.audioanchor/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

I run audiobookshelf and it's amazing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Thank you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/i-threw-away-audibles-app-and-now-i-self-host-my-audiobooks/

Check out this arstechnica article on AudioBookshelf. Should cover most of what you need to get started.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

I would recommend audiobookshelf for the audiobooks, especially if you have your stuff running in docker. It seemed to me like the solutions to force Plex or jellyfin to do books were a bit more hacky than I wanted.